Philip Levine
Philip Levine was born in Detroit, Michigan, United States on January 10th, 1928 and is the Poet. At the age of 87, Philip Levine biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Philip Levine (January 10, 1928 – February 14, 2015) was an American poet best known for his poems about working-class Detroit.
He taught for more than thirty years in the English department of California State University, Fresno and held teaching positions at other universities as well.
He served on the Board of Chancellors of the Academy of American Poets from 2000 to 2006, and was appointed Poet Laureate of the United States for 2011–2012.
Awards
- 2013 Academy of American Poets Wallace Stevens Award
- 2011 Appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (United States Poet Laureate)
- 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry – The Simple Truth (1994)
- 1991 National Book Award for Poetry and Los Angeles Times Book Prize – What Work Is
- 1987 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize from the Modern Poetry Association and the American Council for the Arts
- 1981 Levinson Prize from Poetry magazine
- 1980 Guggenheim Foundation fellowship
- 1980 National Book Award for Poetry – Ashes: Poems New and Old
- 1979 National Book Critics Circle Award – Ashes: Poems New and Old – 7 Years from Somewhere
- 1978 Harriet Monroe Memorial Prize from Poetry
- 1977 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets– The Names of the Lost (1975)
- 1973 American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, Frank O'Hara Prize, Guggenheim Foundation fellowship
